Hello! Tonight is the Kaukauna Christmas Parade. If you plan to walk with us in the parade we will be meeting at 809 Wisconsin. We are position 27 in the parade. I hope to see some first graders there tonight!
Upcoming Events:
December 6th- Kaukauna Christmas Parade
December 8th- Pajama Day and PJs and Publishing Family Night. Square 1 Art Orders will also be distributed this night.
December 13th- No School
December 14th- College Day (Wear your favorite college gear)
December 23rd- No School- Start of Winter Break
January 3rd-Classes resume
Reading: We continue to become experts on a variety of topics by reading nonfiction books. This week we are working on reading in ways to teach others, such as reading with feeling and reading like a writer. We are also learning how we can think and talk about keywords to learn more about our topic and share that learning with others.
Writing: We have been working on adding more to our writing. We will draw on everything that we already learned to teach our readers, including writing how-to pages, persuasive writing, and stories in their teaching books. Adding these different pages into non-fiction books takes a lot of planning and for first graders this can be the trickiest part. We will focus on making our writing purposeful for the reader. We will use a checklist to self-assess our writing and set goals for what we can work on to become an expert at writing teaching books.
Word Work: Our new word wall words are but, yes, no, that, were, people.. We will be assessing these words on Friday. Some fun ways to practice them are writing them in shaving cream on cookie sheets, writing them in the air, clapping them as you spell them, or tracing over words with different color crayons or markers. We will also be spending time each week work on phonics skills specific to each student’s developmental level.
Math: We are continuing to build our understanding of tens and ones. We will spend some time investigating doubles of numbers 1-10 and explore addition strategies that use doubles (double plus 1, double minus 1), represent 2-digit numbers with drawings, equations and numbers, show 2-digit numbers with 10-sticks and circles, read and write numerals and numbers words for numbers through 20 and the decade numbers (30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100), practicing grouping ones into 10s and adding with groups of 10. Some things you could do at home to reinforce these skills are
Content: We are continuing our weather centers this week. Students are learning so much. They are especially intrigued by super storms! Ask your first grader to give you some details about this topic. This week we will also be making thermometers and practicing using them to read temperature and making flags to test wind speed.
As always if you have any questions, let me know!
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